Opinion

September 25, 2026

5 reasons to get excited about Sifted Summit

Harry Stebbings, Henry Hayes, Nick Clegg and the other speakers I’m looking forward to seeing

Éanna Kelly

3 min read

Sifted Summit is back next week, bringing hundreds of the Europe’s tech ecosystem’s top players together for two days of talks in London.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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